Police say Jones entered the Shell Gas Station on Kemper Meadows Drive around 10:15 p.m. Monday night. She showed a box cutter knife and took cigarettes and cash and placed them in a black gym bag. She then ran out the door in an easterly direction.

She was followed by a witness, who was able to point her out to a Forest Park Police Officer who was in the are. The officer caught up with her as she was reaching her getaway car and the black gym bag was recovered.